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(Previously published under the title Extreme Profits
under ISSN 1925-8941)

Mary Colak Mary Colak

Rational decision making, decision audits

With a plethora of books, videos, podcasts, TED and similar talks, seminars, coaching sessions, and other services, why are leaders' decisions still not moving more organizations to success? McKinsey & Company reports that leadership development is consistently less than desired - in a 2016 survey of 510 executives, only 11 percent said that their leadership development programs achieve and sustain the desired results.

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Mary Colak Mary Colak

The fallacy of efficiency, how real leaders lead

In a corporate world where efficiency is the father of productivity, there is a startling counter-effect: The most efficient die early. Perhaps what is even more surprising is that organizations hell-bent on making all of their practices efficient do so at the expense of common sense.

It was Peter Drucker that said: "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency that which should not be done at all."

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